bug#54993: 28.1; Editing etc/NEWS on master with Emacs 28 signals an error

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Yes.  So maybe instead Outline mode in Emacs 29 could turn on
> emacs-news-mode automatically when the file's name is NEWS or NEWS.*
> or ONEWS.

That sounds like a very ugly and unpredictable hack.

>> emacs-news-mode is quite major-modeish, though, so I think that would be
>> awkward.
>
> I don't see why.  What do you see in emacs-news-mode that doesn't fit
> a minor mode?

It sets font-lock keywords, for instance.

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